Gallatin may have forwarded a portion of the correspondence between Dominick A. Hall and William C. C. Claiborne, which Claiborne enclosed to Madison in a letter of 6 June. Also enclosed in that letter was correspondence between Claiborne and Constant Freeman, commanding officer of U.S. troops in Orleans Territory. Claiborne repeatedly tried to convince Freeman to remove his lodgings from a building that Hall identified as the only space owned by the United States that could accommodate the U.S. district court. Freeman refused to comply and insisted on waiting for a decision on the matter from Dearborn (Rowland, Claiborne Letter Books description begins Dunbar Rowland, ed., The Official Letter Books of W. C. C. Claiborne, 1801–1816, Jackson, Miss., 1917, 6 vols. description ends , 3:55-6, 60-6, 71-8; Madison, Papers, Sec. of State Ser. description begins William T. Hutchinson, Robert A. Rutland, J. C. A. Stagg, and others, eds., The Papers of James Madison, Chicago and Charlottesville, 1962– : Sec. of State Ser., Pres. Ser., Ret. Ser. description ends , 9:437-9; Gallatin to TJ, 9 July).